Lloyd’s Register has awarded Approved Training Provider (ATP) Certification to Hae Young Maritime Services Co. Ltd. (HMS), a subsidiary of Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. Ltd (HMM), one of Korea’s largest shipping companies. The HMS Training Center at Busan, Korea trains seafarers under The Society of International Gas Tanker and Terminal Operators (SIGTTO) training standards. It [...]
Adoption of, and interest in, LNG-as-fuel for ships is gathering pace but challenge is as much in safe bunkering and port operations as in ship design: LNG bunkering guidance is one of the key subjects addressed in LR’s latest Gas Technology Report. The growth in gas production is important for shipping and LR’s gas technology [...]
Hyundai Ocean Service contracted Lloyd’s Register Marine Consulting to assess the service lifetime of their vessel ‘Hyundai Utopia’. The study concerns the 1994 built, 273m long, 71,909 dwt, LNG Carrier Hyundai Utopia (IMO 9018555). The President of HDOS, Taek-Gyu Lee, met with Lloyd’s Register’s Korea Chief Representative, Soo-Young Lee in Busan to sign the contract [...]
Lloyd’s Register has published a new guide, Asbestos on ships – how to manage it safely, to help shipowners, operators and all stakeholders understand how to deal with asbestos on ships and to support compliance with maritime asbestos regulations which, since 2002, have widely prohibited the continued use of asbestos. Asbestos remains a problem in [...]
Last month saw the naming ceremony for the 82,000 DWT Kamsarmax bulk carrier Nissaki, owned by St Michael Shipping of Greece. This vessel marked a significant milestone in the development of the shipbuilding capability of Vietnam, and is the biggest ship built to date in the country to Lloyd’s Register class. The vessel was built [...]
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On Friday in Copenhagen, Lloyd’s Register presented Clipper Fleet Management with ISO 50001 certification issued by LRQA, Lloyd’s Register’s provider of independent business assurance. “To us, the ISO 50001 certification is a valuable recognition and documentation that we’re doing the right things within fuel efficiency and energy management,” says Kristian Morch, Group CEO, Clipper Group. [...]
The world’s largest floating offshore facility, Prelude FLNG, is being built for the energy multinational, Shell. Lloyd’s Register has been actively involved on the project, ensuring it will operate safely and sustainably, and applying our FLNG expertise through classification, equipment certification and validation against performance standards. When finished, the giant facility will be 488 metres [...]
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Vessels using the harsh, sometimes hazardous, Northern Sea Route (NSR) linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans will face no sizeable ice hazards by 2050 and are likely to travel ice-free by 2100, according to group of Lloyd’s Register Marine summer interns who produced a radical and independent-minded report. These are the forthright conclusions of a [...]
Lloyd’s Register has provided approval in principle (AIP) for the new ‘Clean Sky’ bulk carrier design incorporating an LNG-as-fuel system. COSCO, Golden Union and Lloyd’s Register started the project in June 2011 to investigate the potential to develop a commercially viable bulk carrier design based on an existing COSCO conventional design but employing gas powered [...]
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Industry feedback from shipyards, designers and shipowners on the first draft of the harmonized IACS Common Structural Rules for tankers and bulk carriers (CSR-H) has highlighted their common concerns that the expanded scope of the proposed new Rules could significantly slow the design process and increase associated costs if class societies do not provide more [...]
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